Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 14)

“It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.”

“To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.”

“There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.”

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”

“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

“There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.”

“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

“They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”

“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

“Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.”

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”

“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

“The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.”